California paralegal Sue Ann Jaffarian has written the fourth book in her Odelia Grey Mystery series, Booby Trap (Midnight Ink, 2009). The fictional Odelia Grey is “a middle-aged, plus-sized paralegal” on the trail of a plastic surgeon “to the rich and famous” whom she suspects is a serial killer (because his own mother thinks he might be the killer, too).In addition to being a full-time paralegal in Los Angeles, a popular speaker, a writer and a blogger at Babble ‘n Blog, Ms. Jaffarian is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, and has a new series pending, the Granny Apples mysteries.
Rhonda Pollero, self-described “Supreme Geek”, has also written a mystery series featuring “caffeine-addicted, discount-sale-shopping fashionista and under-achieving paralegal”, Finley Anderson Tanner. The third book in this series, Fat Chance (Pocket, 2009) is scheduled to be released this spring.
What's next? I’m envisioning a wildly popular new television series about a paralegal crime solver who is both obsessive-compulsive and a frighteningly accurate guesser (stealing a combination of the USA Network Monk and Psych “hooks”), since paralegals are rumored to have super powers -- including the ability to read minds, and to sort, organize and index thousands of pieces of old documents in mildewed cardboard boxes or straining Hefty Cinch Saks that might make a normal and reasonable human being run screaming from the room. Anyone got any ideas for working titles? (Patti, can I steal “Legal Duck”? It’s catchy.)
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I read the first two Odelia Gray mysteries and was unimpressed. The thin women in the books were depicted as evil. It raised my hackles.
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